CategoryCreating Content

How to Write a Series for Your Blog (and Why You’ll Want To)
Have you ever written a series of posts for your blog – a set of posts that are deliberately linked together? If you haven’t, I hope I can convince you to give it a try. Some bloggers feel writing a series of posts is more daunting than writing individual posts. But ...more
Creating Content

11 Ways to Create More Compelling Content for Your Blog
Today I wanted to share some tips on how you can make your content more compelling, whether it’s written, video or audio content. I’m mixing things up and testing out my new camera to create some video content for the blog. For those of you interested in the production aspects ...more
Creating Content

How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Content
Recently, I’ve been exploring five strategies that I’d employ to promote my blog if I were starting all over again. I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. However when it comes to blogging not all ...more
Blog Promotion

How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog
One of the better posts I always remember reading is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my ...more
Creating Content

Tips to Add Originality to your Blog
Recently, we’ve been looking at a variety of ways that bloggers let their blogs degenerate. Today I want to talk about something that has the potential to kill a blog very quickly – the lack of original content or ideas. This is a mistake that many bloggers fall into to ...more
Creating Content

Tips for When You Can’t Blog
Have you ever come across a blog that posts more about why they don’t post than anything else? I hesitate to write about this method of ‘letting your blog go’ because I know that most bloggers do go through stages when they struggle to post to their blog due to ...more
Creating Content

How to Hire Writers for Your Blog
This blog is based on episode 169 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most blogs start out as a solo effort, with one person doing all the writing, marketing and social media updates. That’s certainly how I started all my blogs. But while I still produce most of the content on ProBlogger, it’s ...more
Creating Content

Why You Should Look after Your Archives
Every post you publish is another potential source of traffic. And so obviously the more posts you write, the more traffic you’ll get. But while creating new content is always a good thing, there’s another way to bring extra traffic to your site that will take far less effort. Updating ...more
Creating Content

8 Effective Ways to Wrap up Your Blog Posts
This post is based on episode 56 of the ProBlogger podcast. You’ve said everything you wanted to say in your post, and now it’s time to quickly wrap things up so you can hit ‘Publish’. Sound familiar? If it does, then you’re missing out on an opportunity to do even more ...more
Creating Content